Thomas Hardy Famous Quotes
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
"If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst."
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
"Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened."
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy Quotations
Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Hellen Keller
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
Fannie Hurst
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Herb Cohen
"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself."
Pierre Charron
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Francis Bacon
"By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration."
Benjamin Franklin
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root.
Henry David Thoreau
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.
Lao Tzu
We like someone because. We love someone although.
Henri De Montherlant